I think it's almost a cliché that Ruby is dying, is dead, or is outdated and uncool. It comes up in almost every post about Ruby. It's going as strong as ever

I think it's almost a cliché that Ruby is dying, is dead, or is outdated and uncool. It comes up in almost every post about Ruby. It's going as strong as ever and, if anything, it's stabilised into a robust, expressive and powerful language and in many cases that's a pretty acceptable trade-off. The fact it has long since matured into 'boring' technology (as in 'choose boring technology') is nothing but a good thing. It's great that so much work is going into performance, though. I've been excited to try this new JIT out in prod, and I'm excited to see how Ractor, for example, evolves.